The Minority Report
The Minority Vote is a nonfiction docuseries unfolding during the 2016 Presidential Election. This entrepreneurial project will document and research millennial motivations for voting, and create a toolkit and online interactive website to equip minority millennials with the tools to get informed and get to the ballot.
Newsroom U
Newsroom U facilitates and captures immersive learning experiences for journalism students. The White House Student Press Briefing and Multimedia Weekend marks the initiative’s inaugural launch. Approximately 25 top student journalists (23 from college and 2 from high school) were selected from many of the nation’s leading student media programs to come to the nation’s capital to participate.
Partners include: Adobe, Canon, USA Today, Huffington Post, the Journalism Education Association, Ford Foundation and the Student Press Law Center.
It Takes a Village
“It Takes A Village: Basics of Boyhood and Messages for Manhood” is specifically interested in examining how social media impacts the public and mental health of both content creators and the broader Black community. Using the qualitative research methodology and theoretical framework, photovoice, ITAV is titled after the African proverb that acknowledges the importance of family and community in raising and rearing children.
This research is supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation through a grant to the Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics at The George Washington University.